The President is Never on Vacation

It's the silly season with the Washington Press Corps, again.

Every August, without exception, they run the same exact story: The President is leaving for a 5 week vacation at his home/ranch.

They play this story big and always with all the negative spins:

- why does the President get to go on a 5 week vacation?
- how can he do that when we're at war?
- how will things get done if the President isn't in Washington?

Michael Moore made a huge deal out of this story in the opening of "Farenheit 9/11", where he played up the fact that President Bush was on "vacation" for 40 days in August right before 9/11.

They leave out the facts that would provide balance and context.

- Everyone's gone from Washington. The Supreme Court is out of session. Congress is out of session. Did they run a headline that said "535 Congressman go on 3 month vacation!" ? No, they just smear the President.

- When Congressmen leave Washington to go home and meet with their constituents in their district, do they call it a vacation? They work from their home and go out and meet people. Same with the President. He'll work from Texas and go out and conduct meetings in 10 states while he's on "vacation". Who says he has to work out of Washington all of the time, especially when no one else is there.

- The President is never on "vacation". He has National Security briefings every day. He has a guy following him around with the nuclear codes. He's "on" every day that he's supposedly on "vacation".

Can we give this ridiculous vacation story a rest this year.